Hera Mission

Mission patch ESA | Hera

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

7 Oct, 2:52pm

Pad

Space Launch Complex 40

Launch Service Provider

Booster

B1061

23rd flight (56d since last use)

Landing

Expended (Atlantic Ocean)

Mission

Hera

Mission Type

Robotic Exploration

Destination

Asteroid

Hera is a space mission in development at the European Space Agency in its Space Safety program. Its primary objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted by DART and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid in a colliding trajectory with Earth. It will measure the size and the morphology of the crater created by and momentum transferred by an artificial projectile impacting an asteroid, which will allow measuring the efficiency of the deflection produced by the impact. It will also analyze the expanding debris cloud caused by the impact.

Available Replays

The Space Devs

European Space Agency, ESA

SpaceX

SpaceX Hera

Last Update: Hera signal acquired and all systems nominal.

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